Father Damien Of Molokai Quotes & Sayings

We all know about Father Damien, the French priest who voluntarily forsook the world and went to the leper island of Molokai to labor among its population of sorrowful exiles who wait there, in slow-consuming misery, for death to come and release them from their troubles; — Mark Twain

People disappoint you so often. I hardly knew how to react when they surpassed all your hopes. — Paul Doiron

The de Luce coat of arms: per bend sinister sable and argent, two lucies haurient counterchanged. The crest, the moon in her detriment, and the motto "Dare Lucem." "The moon in her detriment" was a moon eclipsed, and the "lucies," of course, were silver and black luces, or pikes, a double pun on the name de Luce. "Haurient" meant simply that the pikes were standing on their fishy tails. — Alan Bradley

The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening over the course of a year and a half, or two years. — Tom Perrotta

I so owed Arianna, that undead little genius. — Kiersten White

Even though you're not my type, gender wise, you're certainly my type, person-wise. — David Levithan

Socrates used to say, "Philosophers can be happy without music;" and Christians can be happier than philosophers when all outward causes of rejoicing are withdrawn. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Let it be said, Marcus thought dryly,that nothing cooled a man's ardor like the Crusades. — Julia Quinn

Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men. — Gish Jen

Because the Bible is a theological book, it is a book of wrestlings, not a book of answers. In each age the people have to struggle to hear the word of the Lord for their time, and sometimes their hearing is keener than at other times. — Verna J. Dozier

I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head. — Lenny Kravitz

While CEO of P&G, John Pepper was once asked in an interview which skill or characteristic was most important to look for when hiring new employees. Was it leadership? Analytical ability? Problem solving? Collaboration? Strategic thinking? Or something else? His answer was integrity. He explained, "All the rest, we can teach them after they get here. — Paul Smith

This is a major step forward in achieving our objective, which is an ally having a democratic Iraq, a country able to sustain itself and defend itself, a country that will be an ally in the war on terror and a country which will set such a powerful example to others in the region. — Tucker Carlson

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. — Miguel De Unamuno